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Facts

Born April 20, 1850 • Exeter • New Hampshire
Died October 7, 1931 (aged 81) • Stockbridge • Massachusetts

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Daniel Chester French, c. 1915
French, Daniel Chester: Lincoln Memorial
French, Daniel Chester: The Minute Man
sculpture of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell
Bronze statue of John Harvard by Daniel Chester French seated on a stone pedestal inscribed with his name, in front of University Hall at Harvard University.
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Hiram Powers
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Thomas Ball
American sculptor
Portrait of Auguste Rodin standing indoors, wearing a buttoned, two-toned coat with a full beard and tousled hair, looking slightly to the side.
Auguste Rodin
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Andrea del Verrocchio: David
Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian painter and sculptor
Algardi, Alessandro: Tomb of Pope Leo XI
Alessandro Algardi
Italian sculptor
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Pietro Lombardo
Italian sculptor
“Monument of Lady Elizabeth Nightingale,” white and black marble sculpture by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1761; in the Chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey, London
Louis-François Roubiliac
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“The Princesses Luise and Friederike,” marble sculpture by Gottfried Schadow, 1797; in the National-Galerie, Berlin
Gottfried Schadow
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Guillaume Coustou
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Portrait believed to be of John Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.
John Michael Rysbrack
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Maya Lin
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Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis
American sculptor
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Diana of the Tower
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
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Ream, Vinnie
Vinnie Ream
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Ney, Elisabet: sculpture of Stephen F. Austin
Elisabet Ney
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Manship, Paul
Paul Manship
American sculptor
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Giovanni Battista Foggini
Italian sculptor
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
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Donatello: David
Donatello
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